On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >Olivier Langlois wrote: >>>Just for the records: My design goals for Cygwin >>>are that it works fine as a POSIX environment, not that it works fine >>>to run DOS tools. That's a nice side-effect at best. >> >>It seems to me that Cygwin design goals have changed recently otherwise >>if offering a POSIX environment while coexisting nicely with DOS tools >>was not one of the legacy Cygwin design goal, how comes this >>feature/behavior has been included for so many years in Cygwin? How >>about backward compatibility as a design goal? Backward compatibility is >>a nice design goal, you know. > >FLOSS is not known for keeping backward compatibility particularly high >in their list of design goals. :-)
We do keep it high on our list for the Cygwin DLL. We agonize over it quite a bit, in fact. "make" is neither the Cygwin project nor is it the Cygwin DLL. cgf - make maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
